Read: It would theoretically be salvageable, but under Trump/the Republicans and Biden/the Dems, it won't be.
We had one shot to do it right like China did (Who have been pretty much actually back to normal for months now), but our government on both a federal and state level have just absolutely, royally fucked it all up. Mainly because they were/are too much of greedy, stingy, capitalist assholes to give people the aid they need so that their lives aren't completely destroyed.
After 8 months of annoying-ass variable on/off lockdowns (Instead of doing 1 sustained national lockdown at the beginning), the public will to continue has overall been destroyed, and it ain't comin' back.
He took over in the middle of the aids crisis not at the beginning. The biggest complaint against Fauci from that era was he wasn't approving anti-retroviral drugs fast enough, not that he was covering it up because they were well past that point when he had this job.
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I don't disagree with you, but generally speaking Fauci is one of those people who thinks he's doing the most good by working from the inside even given its constraints.
He's not just some moron who kept falling upwards like a lot of other people in government. He's good at his job, it's just that his job is insanely difficult. The politics of pandemics are negative sum by default.